On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 02:14 +0200, Graham Anderson wrote:
On Friday 02 October 2009 01:03:59 phanisvara das wrote:
well, people who run machines with 512 MB do... And that ain't vintage systems. Just got a _new_ netbook (Acer aspire one) that only has 512MB mem, which can not (easily, like desktop server) be upgraded.
And there are suitable alternatives for these people.
Such as... pen-and-paper, abacus?
Contemporary desktops should not be held back by limited resource devices or pseudo Luddites.
People writing bloatware, that claim even more resources without adding functionality _or_ the chance to alternatives should be flogged in public. <<<<<< sorry, typo, They should apply for a job at M$ I'm not going to install SuSElinux_7.1, that would run in 64MB (yes, you read it correct: a humble sixtyfour MB) WITH KDE, allbeit KDE1. OTOH, i tried both 11.1 (preload off) and ubuntu_9.04. Without any applications running yet, both installations were using swap very intensively. Not advisable with swap on flash-disk. Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org